Why was new orleans so vulnerable to yellow fever

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Video: The Disease that Devastated America : Documentary on the Yellow Fever Disaster

Watch the video and answer the questions:

1. What were some of the early signs and symptoms of yellow fever?

2. Why was New Orleans so vulnerable to Yellow Fever?

3. Why was there such a panic in New Orleans?

4. What did Dr. Paul Jurgensen mention as signs/symptoms of yellow fever? How did the disease progress & in what time frame?

5. What were some of the things the residents did to prevent the spread of the disease?

6. How did Yellow Fever begin to spread?

7. What role did Carlos Finlay play in the Yellow Fever saga?

8. What three conditions did Finlay determine must be present to contract Yellow Fever?

A. B. C.

9. What did Finlay have to do to prove his mosquito theory?

10. How did the war against Spain play a role in helping determine the cause of Yellow Fever?

11. Yellow Fever is caused by a____________.

12. Lazear played what role in the discovery of the cause of Yellow Fever?13. Why did Lazear and Reed finally listen to Finlay?

14. What eventually happens to Lazear?

15. Why does it take 12 days between the mosquito biting an infectious person and spreading that disease to a new victim?

16. .What type of experiment did Dr. Reed run to convince the scientific community that mosquitoes were the cause of Yellow fever?

17. How did New Orleans fight the Yellow Fever problem?

18. What were the results?

19. How long has it been since the last outbreak of Yellow Fever in the U.S.?

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